Quote

Whatever one cultivates, is what one becomes.

Laozi

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Laozi
Archivist
Philosopher
Writer
Lao-tze
Lao Tzu
Lao-tzu
Lao-tsu
Li Er
Laotze
Cultivates
Becomes
Whatever
Art

More quotes by Laozi

Image
The hard and stiff are death's companions. The soft and weak are life's companions.
Laozi
Image
The usefulness of the pot lies in its emptiness.
Laozi
Image
When nothing is done, nothing is left undone.
Laozi
Image
Appetite for food and sex is nature.
Laozi
Image
Success is as dangerous as failure. Hope is as hollow as fear.
Laozi
Image
What is a good man but a bad man's teacher? What is a bad man but a good man's job? If you do not remember this, You will get lost, No matter how intelligent you are. It is the great secret.
Laozi
Image
Praise and disgrace cause fear.
Laozi
Image
Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.
Laozi
Image
When the intelligent and animal souls are held together in one embrace, they can be kept from separating.
Laozi
Image
When the government is quite unobtrusive, people are indeed pure. When the government is quite prying, people are indeed conniving.
Laozi
Image
For all things difficult to acquire, the intelligent man works with perseverance.
Laozi
Image
To joy in conquest is to joy in the loss of human life.
Laozi
Image
The truly great man dwells on what is real and not what is on the surface.
Laozi
Image
Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.
Laozi
Image
If you wish to be out front, then act as if you were behind.
Laozi
Image
Do not attempt to conquer the world with force, for force only causes resistance.
Laozi
Image
Cautious, like crossing a river in the winter.
Laozi
Image
Thirty spokes meet in the hub, but the empty space between them is the essence of the wheel. Pots are formed from clay, but the empty space within it is the essence of the pot. Walls with windows and doors form the house, but the empty space within it is the essence of the home.
Laozi
Image
The world is won by those who let it go.
Laozi
Image
Return animosity with virtue.
Laozi